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| October 15, 2010

New Developments To A2iA's Core Recognition Engines Address The Needs Of Users Worldwide

A2iA's research laboratory releases new features and enhancements, allowing A2iA to be proactive in the market place and a leader in its field.

A2iA the worldwide leading developer of tools for handwritten and machine printed text recognition, information extraction and intelligent classification of paper documents, announced new features and improvements to its core, proprietary recognition engines. By allowing complex and cursive handwritten data to become part of a structured database from all types of forms, documents and checks, including cursive handwritten letters, A2iA is proven to reduce manual data-entry and document handling costs. A2iA's technology is used by thousands worldwide in paper-intensive industries such as healthcare, insurance, banking and finance, government, telecommunications, and mailrooms.

A2iA FieldReader, a toolkit developed to automatically extract printed and handwritten information from structured forms, A2iA AddressReader, designed to process envelopes and mail-pieces, and A2iA CheckReader, a comprehensive toolkit for check-processing, now contain the ability to recognize time fields. Returned in a 24-hour format with a confidence score, the engines return three numeric values for the hour, minute and second.

Additional A2iA CheckReader enhancements and features include:

American Checks:

Improved recognition on check codeline.

Brazilian Checks:

Recognition of identification numbers (CPF and CNPJ numbers).

Recognition of post-dates on checks (BOA).

Dominican Republic Checks:

New country version: Recognition of Dominican checks.

Italian Checks:

Improved recognition on amount.

Improved recognition on date.

New Caledonian Checks:

Detection of a signature.

Since its founding in 1991, A2iA has dedicated itself to developing tools that locate, extract and intelligently classify documents, especially those that contain complex and cursive handwritten data. By operating one of the world's largest private research centers dedicated to automatic document processing with a focus on unstructured content, A2iA is readily able to address the needs of today's changing environment.

About A2iA
A2iA, Artificial Intelligence and Image Analysis, is a software company that operates one of the world's largest research centers focusing on ways to extract information from everyday paper documents, with a focus on handwritten contents. A2iA's Document Classification, OCR, ICR and IWR technologies do not contain any third-party technology and are available in 23-country versions and 6-languages. A2iA's proprietary toolkits have been reducing data-entry costs and improving business process automation for nearly 20 years, and are used to enhance the forms-processing,
transaction-processing, content management, document management, and knowledge management systems from leading vendors.